Singin' In The Rain (1952)

It has been raining cats and dogs here,  in Jakarta. well, i guess i've found my mood to do another writing about my top ranked favorite musical films : Singin' In The Rain, yay!

The Movie was voted as the highest ranked musical in 10th Greatest Film of all time by Entertaintment Weekly. and yes, i've got to agree with this one. Anyhow, the song "Singin' in The Rain" the one who sung by Gene Kelly, was recorded at the same date on my birthday, June 5th! Hooray!

Singin' In The Rain has a nice story with terrific scores and remarkable dance sequence, wrapped with an epic punchline and strongly played character. 

I might say that besides gene kelly's superb choreography (well, of course, he's amazing) Singin' In The Rain wouldn't be complete without Jean Hagen who played Lina Lamont! 

She had this shrill, annoying screeched voice. And also very, very dumb. My favorite villain.

Gene Kelly was co star with Donald O' Connor, played Cosmo, and Debbie Reynolds who played as Kathy Selden.  I read some of the facts about Singin' In The Rain, and it said that Debbie Reynolds have had a hard time to learned the choreography, Fred Astaire who's on the same set is the one who help her with the dance.

Some also said that she can't sing, that her voice was dubbed by Jean Hagen who played Lina Lamont, and correct me if i'm wrong, they both were dubbed over their role's voice!

So, Debbie was dubbed the screeches voice of Lina Lamont's singing in Would You, while Kathy Selden's part in "Would You" supposedly Debbie singing, was dubbed by Betty Noyes who has far greater voices than she did. And the idea of the movie was that Kathy dubbed all of Lina Lamont's voices in the film of the film while Lina is actually dubbed Kathy's part in this actual film. huh 

Later Debbie Reynold said that Singin' In the Rain and childbirth are the two hardest things in her life. And the child she gave birth to was Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia Organa. Whoa! 

Another amazing things about this film was the high difficulty of the choreography combined with only one take, continuous shot of the actors dancing through the numbers like in "Make Em Laugh" and "Singin' In The Rain". I noticed that "Make Em Laugh" was a crazy full of energy and cosmo's eyes is soooo blue. while "Singin' In The Rain" was giving me a very happy feeling from the first time i watched it. 

Singin' In The Rain story line was based on the music scores and numbers,so they add the plot later. But, they actually did a great job in script writing. Singin' In The Rain got a plenty of epic line : 

But the best thing about this film was the finale. I almost cry when Kathy turned away after Don (Gene Kelly) shouted from the stage 

"Ladies and Gentlemen stop that girl, that girl running on the aisle! stop her! That's the girl whose voiced you heard and loved tonight, she's the real star of the picture! Kathy Selden!" 

and then they sing "You Are My Lucky Star" in the finale. Even though, her voice were dubbed, but the ending sure is the best of Debbie Reynolds. Ah.